ⱁⰽⱁ
Old Church Slavonic
Alternative forms
- Cyrillic: око (oko)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *ȍko, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ak-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-.
Noun
ⱁⰽⱁ • (oko) n
- (anatomy) eye
- vision, sight
Declension
Declension of ⱁⰽⱁ (irregular s-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ⱁⰽⱁ oko | ⱁⱍⰻ oči | ⱁⱍⰵⱄⰰ očesa |
| Accusative | ⱁⰽⱁ oko | ⱁⱍⰻ oči | ⱁⱍⰵⱄⰰ očesa |
| Genitive | ⱁⱍⰵⱄⰵ, ⱁⰽⰰ očese, oka | ⱁⱍⱐⱓ, ⱁⱍⰻⱓ očĭju, očiju | ⱁⱍⰵⱄⱏ očesŭ |
| Locative | ⱁⱍⰵⱄⰵ, ⱁⱌⱑ, ⱁⱍⰵⱄⰻ očese, ocě, očesi | ⱁⱍⱐⱓ, ⱁⱍⰻⱓ očĭju, očiju | ⱁⱍⰵⱄⱐⱈⱏ očesĭxŭ |
| Dative | ⱁⱍⰵⱄⰻ, ⱁⰽⱆ očesi, oku | ⱁⱍⰻⰿⰰ očima | ⱁⱍⰵⱄⱐⰿⱏ očesĭmŭ |
| Instrumental | ⱁⱍⰵⱄⱐⰿⱐ, ⱁⰽⱁⰿⱐ očesĭmĭ, okomĭ | ⱁⱍⰻⰿⰰ očima | ⱁⱍⰵⱄⱏⰹ očesy |
| Vocative | ⱁⰽⱁ oko | ⱁⱍⰻ oči | ⱁⱍⰵⱄⰰ očesa |
The singular takes o-stem or s-stem endings, the dual takes mostly i-stem endings, and the plural takes s-stem endings. Halla-aho considers the dual forms a remnant of an original i-stem which later became an s-stem, but Derksen reconstructs the Proto-Slavic form as an o-stem instead.
References
- Cejtlin, R.M.; Večerka, R.; Blagova, E., editors (1994), “ⱁⰽⱁ”, in Staroslavjanskij slovarʹ (po rukopisjam X—XI vekov) [Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (Based on 10–11th Century Manuscripts)], Moscow: Russkij jazyk
- Hauptova Z., editor (1958–1997), “ⱁⰽⱁ”, in Slovník jazyka staroslověnského (Lexicon linguae palaeoslovenicae), Prague: Euroslavica
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Halla-aho, Jussi (2006) Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology: On the Basis of Old Church Slavic (Slavica Helsingiensia; 26), Helsinki: University of Helsinki